Friday, November 30, 2007

These are important questions to understand and consider in searching for a nursing program that fits with your own criteria. There are other factors to consider as well.

What does impacted mean? Along with the shortage of nurses, we have a shortage of nurse educators and this means that nursing programs are overcrowded and many have long waiting lists. Candidates who are at the top of their game are usually the first ones to get admitted. One way to hedge your bets is to apply to several programs.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

I was recently apprised of a new product for nursing students to help them learn and remember common medical abbreviations and basic mathematical conversions nurses frequently need such as Fahrenheit to Celsius, pounds to kilograms, etc. Designed by a nurse educator, Medical Memory Cards follow the rules of memory matching card games. Each set has 26 pairs of cards to match up. There are 3 different sets and they can be purchased individually or in a set of all 3.

If you're looking for a holiday gift for a student nurse, check out Medical Memory Cards on Facebook

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Monday, November 26, 2007

I hope everyone had a terrific Thanksgiving holiday! How's your holiday shopping going? Hope it isn't stressing you out too much. Stop and enjoy the season!

If you're looking for a card for your staff, fellow nurses or students, I have one available on The Nursing Site. For $5 (through PayPal) you can download and print your own on card stock or even regular paper. Print several, or take the .pdf file to your printer. Take the stress out of wishing your colleagues a happy holiday season!

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

With Thanksgiving just a couple of days away now, the holiday season is upon us whether we're ready or not. Wishing you all a very Happy Thanksgiving and the best of holidays yet to come!!

This is never an easy season for nurses. People don't get well and go home for the holidays. Health care facilities don't have the opportunity to shut down for a week between Christmas and New Years like my husband's engineering company always did.

In fact, this can be peak season for nurses. Flu season officially starts about mid November and continues well into the new year. Pneumonia seems to run rampant and hospitals fill up. Home health agencies open many new cases, and doctor's offices and clinics are full. About the only thing that may slow down is elective surgeries. People don't usually choose to be battered and bruised for the holidays.

For those of you in nursing school, or considering a career in nursing, be sure you understand that you aren't going to have a two week break for the holidays once you become a nurse. In fact, it may be nearly impossible to take your vacation at or near this time of year so plan ahead. you WILL be working many a Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Years. The same goes for all other holidays throughout the year including your own special days such as birthdays and anniversaries. It comes with the territory so be prepared. Health care is a 24/7, 365 days-a-year profession.

Saturday, November 17, 2007

I have begun the tedious task of adding content to The Nursing Site from the old Nursing.About.com. I started with "How to Become a Nurse" articles and have a few others up as well. I estimate this is going to take a few weeks to get it done right so please bear with me, and if you'd like to know when it's all done, please be sure to subscribe to the feed for this blog, and join the Forum. The links for these are in the sidebar.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

I've been given permission to repost my content from About.com and so I will begin to upload as much as I can over the next few days. This will be an ongoing process and I will add new content as well. Thanks for your loyalty.

If you have suggestions for content or would like to write a guest article, please Email me at: kathyquan@roadrunner.com.

As always, please understand that all content (including artwork and photos) here is copyrighted and if you want to use it in part or in full, you MUST Email me at kathyquan@roadrunner.com for permission first.

That includes posting blocks of my text on your blog! It MUST have a link to this site and MUST be credited. Ask FIRST please!!!! Thank you!

It's overwhelming to think about the number of toys that have been recalled in the past few months mostly due to lead content and other safety concerns. Our local news station alerted us to this new Widget that updates with each new recall. (See the sidebar.)

I hope it's helpful to anyone with young children in the home or family. As the holiday buying season moves into high speed with "Black Friday" next week, it's going to be increasingly difficult to know what to buy for children. Poor Santa really has his hands full this year!

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

The Nursing Site website has been set up and I am adding content everyday. As soon as I have rights to my articles from nursing.About.com, I will post them as well. This should be around the end of November.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Welcome to The Nursing Site. As you may know, About.com is making changes and will disband the Nursing site. They are going to have a health care careers site and incorporate nursing into the site. I encourage you to continue to visit this new site and support About.com. They are a great site and a wonderful company to work for.

I will post my articles from that site as soon as I have all rights to them again. This should be in a couple of weeks. Until then you can still access them at nursing.about.com.

As I begin to set up a new website for my articles all about nursing, I will also begin to post news about nursing in this blog. I invite you to comment and participate actively. As part of my new website, I will also set up a forum for nurses to share experiences.

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